July 17th Yesterday afternoon I hopped the bus from Galway – leaving behind much gratitude to Aisling and the other girls, for letting me stay with them – to come to Dublin for the night, to catch travel company Celtic Connection’s Dublin-Edinburgh shuttle (the Thursday shuttle was already booked up, leaving only today’s). My night’s [...]
July 10th Up in the morning, I put on my dress shirt and pin-stripe trousers, then trekked out for my 30-minute walk from my new home in Newcastle, into city centre for work at noon. A bit of chill, a bit of mist, but the air was nice, crisp, refreshing – always good for a [...]